The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 66 The Wind Rises
There is still one day left until the Five Mountains Alliance Meeting.

Jinan Prefecture, Tai'an City, and the provincial government office.

The yamen, which was once majestic and awe-inspiring, was now filled with wailing. Common people passing by heard the faint wailing coming from inside and became terrified and took detours.

Inside the yamen hall, the prefect of Tai'an was lying on the ground, his official uniform had been stripped off, leaving him only in his inner garments, which were covered in blood and gasping for breath.

Sitting in the hall was a middle-aged man with a pale face, no beard and a shy posture.

It was the eunuch who held the seal of the Metropolitan Prefecture, Cheng Yuanzhen.

"Eunuch... I really didn't know that the Taishan Sect was colluding with the Ming Cult..."

"There are so many people coming and going in Tai'an City, and the yamen runners are powerless to control them. I have no choice but to have dealings with Zuo Lishan, the villain..."

Cheng Yuanzhen didn't even look at him, stood up and waved his hand.

Then someone dragged the prefect away, who was still crying out for justice.

Cheng Yuanzhen turned his head and looked at the inspector of Tai'an Prefecture, who was also the Jinyiwei spy who came to the prefecture government office and handed him the package when Li Miao saw Tai'an City.

"Are the soldiers ready?"

"Yes. But... Captain Li hasn't arrived yet. Should we wait a while?" the inspector said in embarrassment.

"Captain Li...ha, he was still acting arrogantly in Taishan Sect a few days ago, but now he has abandoned his post and no one knows where he has gone." Cheng Yuanzhen sneered.

"The incident has caused a lot of uproar these days, and many people have already fled. When he comes back, I'm afraid he can only go to Mount Tai to catch some rabbits for the emperor."

"Your Majesty is still too lenient with you. Tomorrow is the Five Mountains Alliance Meeting. If you don't go today, when will you go?"

"But……"

"Shut up!" Cheng Yuanzhen shouted.

"I am the eunuch in charge of the capital's seal. I am here on a mission with the Imperial Guards under the Emperor's order. This is not your Imperial Guards' family business! Without Li Miao here, no one else has the right to speak here!"

"Call the troops! Go surround Taishan Sect now!"

"...Yes!" The inspector hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't resist, nodded and said yes, then turned and left.

Cheng Yuanzhen looked gloomy as he stood in the hall and watched his departing back.

A young eunuch came over and whispered, "Master, we haven't found anything. It looks like poison, but there are no traces."

Cheng Yuanzhen waved his hand and said, "Forget it. Those Jinyiwei guys deal with people from the underworld every day. Who knows where they got the poison from? They just have no other choice. They want to delay us for a few days."

"Now that Mr. Li is not here, this job has fallen into our hands. There is no need to investigate this matter further."

Apparently, Xiao Si's poison delayed their journey at a very opportune moment and had been discovered by Cheng Yuanzhen.

Cheng Yuanzhen murmured to himself: "I wonder where that Li has gone... but it's just right."

"The person Zhu Zai has relied on the most in recent years is Li Miao."

"Why not just get it done today, and then go back to the capital and accuse him of neglecting the emperor's orders... It's like cutting off an arm of Zhu Zai."

"Zhu Zai...haha, your good days as Jinyiwei are over!"

Thinking of this, Cheng Yuanzhen did not hesitate and immediately gathered everyone and headed towards Taishan Sect.

As they walked away, a young man with a feminine face was sitting at a tea stall. He glanced at Cheng Yuanzhen, slowly picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

"Right Envoy, we found Zuo Lishan. He is seriously injured, but not dead yet."

One person said softly.

"Okay~" Yun Zelin responded nonchalantly, picking up a piece of dessert and biting it carefully.

A little kid next to them, about five or six years old, stared at the snacks that Yun Zelin was eating without blinking, and was obviously very greedy.

Seeing this, Yun Zelin chuckled and handed a piece of dessert to the child: "Here."

"Thank you, brother!" The child thanked him happily, took the snack, stuffed it in his mouth impatiently and ran away.

"Young master is so kind." The daughter of the tea stall was helping out here. She had never seen a man as handsome as Yun Zelin before, so she kept looking at him secretly. Seeing that he seemed to be a kind person, she hesitated for a moment and came to talk to him with a blushing face.

Yun Zelin smiled gently and said, "I like children."

After that, he also took a piece of dessert and gave it to her: "Girl, have some too. I'm hungry and bought too much. I'm worried about it. Girl, please help me."

"Thank you, sir..." The girl blushed, took the snack, and trotted away.

Yun Zelin smiled, stood up, and spoke to the Ming Cult disciple who had just reported to him.

"I like that child just now."

"Once things are done here, go and kill his parents and bring the child back to the main temple. I want to accept him as my disciple."

"Yes!"

"Let's go and meet the Great Master Zuo, who was saved in exchange for Lan Zuoshi's life."

After saying that, Yun Zelin stood up and left, walking towards a private house in the city.

At this time, in the yard of the house, Zuo Lishan was lying on the ground with his eyes wide open and saliva flowing from his mouth.

"Why are you pressing my acupuncture points? Untie them quickly!"

"I have extraordinary martial arts skills, I am just seriously injured temporarily! With such a powerful enemy in front of us, what do you want to do to me!?"

"Do you have someone in the Ming Cult who has the final say? Let him come and see me!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming." Yun Zelin stepped into the yard and said softly.

Zuo Lishan looked at Yun Zelin and asked, "Who are you?"

"The Right Emissary of Manichaeism, Yun Zelin, greets the Left Sect Leader." Yun Zelin bowed to Zuo Lishan, then turned around and instructed his attendants, "Why did you press the acupoints on the Left Sect Leader? This is so rude. Why don't you untie it quickly?"

Someone came forward and untied Zuo Lishan's acupoints.

Zuo Lishan sat up, but was too weak to stand up.

There was not a single piece of good flesh on his body. His left arm hung at his side like a soft rope, dangling. His right arm was broken at the wrist.

The clothes on his body were torn, revealing four or five huge wounds as if torn by a wild beast. One could even see the yellowed tendons and white bone stumps underneath.

An ordinary person would have died with such injuries, but Zuo Lishan was the only one who managed to survive thanks to the poisonous insect in his body.

Even though Lan Lechuan tried his best to stop Li Miao that day, Zuo Lishan only barely escaped with his life.

It was only by relying on special means that the people of the Ming Cult found the seriously injured and dying Zuo Lishan in a deserted area.

"Right Envoy Yun." Zuo Lishan clasped his fists reluctantly.

"Seeing Sect Leader Zuo, I finally feel relieved." Yun Zelin said with a smile, "If Envoy Lan Zuo knew about this, he would be relieved too."

Zuo Lishan was worried.

He also couldn't understand why Lan Lechuan would risk his life to stop Li Miao and let him escape. When fighting with Li Miao, he clearly didn't take his life seriously, so why did he suddenly change his mind?

Lan Lechuan is truly at the top, and there is a huge difference between him and Zuo Lishan, who is at the top of the evil path. They are not related, so why would he make such a choice?

Although he was confused, he knew that he couldn't ask this question now. He had to at least wait until his injuries recovered and he had the confidence to protect himself before exploring it.

So Zuo Lishan ignored Lan Lechuan and said directly: "Right Envoy Yun, I need some flesh and blood with true energy to recover from my injuries."

"The martial arts of that villain Li Miao are beyond ordinary. Even if your sect still has masters like Lan Zuoshi, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to defeat him."

"No matter what your sect plans, cure me first. At least if I run into that villain Li Miao, there will be someone who can stop him."

Yun Zelin's expression had always been kind and gentle, like a gentle woman, but she frowned after hearing Zuo Lishan's words.

He raised his hand to stop Zuo Lishan: "Master Zuo, please stop."

"You just said... Li Miao what?"

Zuo Lishan was stunned: "Li Miao, that...thief?"

Kaha——

Zuo Lishan let out a dull roar from his throat and kicked around with his hands and feet.

Just now, Yun Zelin approached Zuo Lishan, grabbed his throat with one hand, and lifted him up!
Zuo Lishan could even hear the strange "crunching" sound coming from the bones in his neck!

His body had been transformed by the Gu insects, and his skin and flesh were strong. Even if his Qi was exhausted at this moment, it would be difficult for him to be injured by a sword! How could he be so fragile in this person's hands!
Why did he suddenly attack me?!
"You——" Zuo Lishan barely squeezed out a word.

Yun Zelin said gently: "Left Sect Leader, Left Sect Leader... Are you, a mediocre person who has taken a side path, qualified to mention Lord Li's name?"

"Lord Li is my benefactor. If I turn a blind eye to you scolding him in front of me, wouldn't I be a heartless beast?"

Yun Zelin looked into Zuo Lishan's eyes and spoke softly.

"You treated me unfairly, so I have no choice but to be unkind."

Under Zuo Lishan's shocked, helpless, angry and puzzled gaze, Yun Zelin suddenly exerted force and broke his neck.

Zuo Lishan fell softly to the ground, his vision gradually dimming.

"...all in vain..."

This was his last thought.

The leader of the Five Mountains Sword Sect, "Zhenyue Sword" Zuo Lishan, died without any resistance in the most humiliating way for a man in the martial arts world.

Yun Zelin stretched out his hand and made it into a claw, thrusting it fiercely into the chest of Zuo Lishan's corpse.

After groping inside for a while, he pulled out a bloody mess.

That thing looked like a heart, but it was covered with all kinds of proliferating flesh and blood. There were many small holes on the flesh and blood, and maggot-like blood-red tentacles emerged from them, swaying slowly in the air.

Yun Zelin put the heart under his nose and smelled it, then waved his hand in disgust.

"That's disgusting."

"Alas...repaying a favor is really not easy."

After saying that, he stuffed the heart into his mouth.

The heart was the size of a fist, so it certainly couldn't be stuffed in at once. Yun Zelin used his fingers to poke it in hard, as if he wasn't treating his own body at all. He kept poking until he retched and shed tears.

After a while, the heart was finally "stabbed" into the abdomen by Yun Zelin.

Yun Zelin sighed, his face flushed, and he let out a long breath.

"Right Envoy! This is the leader..." A person nearby saw what Yun Zelin did and spoke hurriedly.

Swah——

Blood splattered and the man fell to the ground.

Yun Zelin took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped the blood off his hands, and threw it on the face of the corpse.

"Well, the leader has other plans and has sent me a secret letter. There is no need to mention this matter again. From now on, I will be responsible for everything here."

Yun Zelin clapped his hands.

"Go outside the city and inform Protector Mao to get ready."

"All the soldiers in the city have gone to Taishan Sect. Let them go and play the Five Mountains Alliance. We will take action tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)